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512 Pixels is a blog covering Apple, computer history, design, and other fine nerdery, written by Stephen Hackett.

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Updated 512 Merch Store

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2025/08/04

I’ve spent some time updating the official 512 Pixels Merch Store over on Cotton Bureau. Here’s what new: 512 Logo Stickers I finally have stickers of the newish blog logo ready! Order in 2-inch and 3-inch varities → The Big Idea “Let each element be true to itself. If the screen is flat, let it […]

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Revisit eWorld, Via the Web

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2025/08/04

I spent a lot of time this weekend playing with this website.

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Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and...

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2025/08/04

Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history and app usage stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocking ad trackers in Safari, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web. And with App […]

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Mac Power Users 808: “The Momentum is Building,” with...

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2025/08/03

Simon Støvring is the developer behind some fantastic apps, including Runestone, Scriptable, Jayson, and Data Jar. This week on MPU, he joins us to talk about how he works on these apps, his use of Apple’s default apps, and how he’s thinking about iOS 26.

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CultCast 710: iPhone 17 Pro Leaks: The Good, Weird,...

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2025/08/01

Earlier today, I joined D. Griffin Jones and Leander Kahney on the Cult of Mac podcast to talk about the most recent iPhone 17 leaks and Apple’s external display options, and to give a tour of Widgetsmith.

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3 Billion iPhones

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2025/08/01

In January 2007, I was on a trip visiting family in rural North Carolina during the week of Macworld Expo. When I got back to my aunt’s house after a day of visiting folks, I waited as her sloooooow Internet connection loaded apple.com. What I saw blew my mind. The iPhone had been rumored, but seeing […]

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Apple’s Q3 2025 Results

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2025/07/31

Jason Snell: On Thursday, Apple reported its third-quarter 2025 fiscal results. Revenue was $94 billion (a fiscal third-quarter record), up 10% versus the year-ago quarter. Mac revenue was up 15%, iPhone revenue up 13%, and Services revenue up 13%. The Wearables/Home/Accessories category was down 9% and iPad revenue down 8%.

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First Australian Orbital Rocket Suffers Catastrophic...

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2025/07/31

I had lost track of this launch, but Stephen Clark has the details: Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country’s first homegrown launch vehicle. The 82-foot-tall (25-meter) Eris rocket ignited its four main engines and took off from […]

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Mac Power Users 807: A Sign of Maturity, with...

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2025/07/27

This week on Mac Power Users: Federico joins the show to talk to David and Stephen about his Apple gear, iPadOS 26, running MacStories, and how AI is changing automation tools.

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Memphis Light, Gas & Water Made $1 Million Error in...

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2025/07/25

For the second time, xAI has fallen behind on its bills to our local utility company. In February 2025, it was reported that the AI company was $400,000 behind and received several cutoff notices. This time it seems that the error was on the side of MLG&W, per David Royer and April Thompson, reporting for […]

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The Highs and Lows of macOS Tahoe

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2025/07/24

Today, the OS Class of 26 graduated to Public Beta, and Jason Snell and I are in lockstep in how we think about Tahoe: After a month using early builds of macOS Tahoe full time, I can confidently report that this is an upgrade that feels like an upgrade. The additional power of Spotlight and Shortcuts is […]

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Macintosh: The Design Solution for Engineering &...

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2025/07/24

Look, YouTube keeps serving me these ancient and weird Apple videos, so I’m going to keep sharing them here. I mean, when is the last time you saw a lizard standing atop a beige Mac as a plane flies overhead?

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Daily HIG

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2025/07/24

I have a new favorite Mastodon account to follow.

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Connected #562: Tech Boomers

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2025/07/23

This week on the show, Liquid Glass is back in a big way, and we have feelings about it.

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Google AI Summaries Leading to Less Traffic to the Web

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2025/07/23

Athena Chapekis and Anna Lieb at the Pew Research Center, on the effect AI-generated results have had on websites showing up in Google search results: A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adultswho agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search […]

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AppleCare One

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2025/07/23

Apple Newsroom: For just $19.99 per month, customers can protect up to three products in one plan, with the option to add more at any time for $5.99 per month for each device. With AppleCare One, customers receive one-stop service and support from Apple experts across all of the Apple products in their plan for […]

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xAI Weeks Away from Firing Up Second Memphis Site

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2025/07/22

Today, xAI released a statement concerning Colossus 2, its second data center here in Memphis: “In mid-February we broke ground at our new data center at Tulane in Shelby County, Tennessee. We have begun deploying the initial phase of computing infrastructure. “This initiative includes the installation of an additional 110,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs, powered by […]

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Apple Intelligence News Notification Summaries Are Back

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2025/07/22

Back in January, Apple disabled Apple Intelligence notification summaries for news app after a string of high-profile incidents of the feature rewriting headlines to be incorrect. With iOS Beta 4, the feature is back, as Chance Miller writes: When you update to iOS 26 beta 4, you’ll see a new setup flow that allows you […]

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Sponsor: Hello Weather

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2025/07/21

One of the most beloved indie weather apps just got a major redesign for 2025, and it’s worth checking out as your new daily driver. The whole app has been modernized and rebuilt from the ground up, and it feels great. Hello Weather has always been known for its simple, friendly, super readable design, but […]

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Cortex 169: John Gruber – State of the Workflow

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2025/07/18

Myke is running a series on Cortex called “State of the Workflow” where he is interviewing folks making interesting things. This month’s episode is excellent.

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